linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: psci: Fix build breakage without PM

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Date:	Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:38:09 +0100
From:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: psci: Fix build breakage without PM_SLEEP

On wto, 2014-12-09 at 13:29 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 December 2014 12:48:36 Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > Fix build failure of defconfig when PM_SLEEP is disabled (e.g. by
> > disabling SUSPEND) and CPU_IDLE enabled:
> > 
> > arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c:543:2: error: unknown field ‘cpu_suspend’ specified in initializer
> >   .cpu_suspend = cpu_psci_cpu_suspend,
> >   ^
> > arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c:543:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
> > arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c:543:2: warning: (near initialization for ‘cpu_psci_ops.cpu_prepare’) [enabled by default]
> > make[1]: *** [arch/arm64/kernel/psci.o] Error 1
> > 
> > The cpu_operations.cpu_suspend field exists only if ARM64_CPU_SUSPEND is
> > defined, not CPU_IDLE.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
> > 
> 
> No objection to fixing this obvious build bug, but why do we even have
> an ARM64_CPU_SUSPEND option? On ARM32 we only have the respective option
> because we have a random collection of platform specific drivers that
> use the symbols, but that's not the case on ARM64.

I believe because of cpuidle. It's the same as on ARM32: the cpu_suspend
is used by both PM_SLEEP and CPU_IDLE.

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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